Chapter 1: Becoming an Army

How can a man be considered to have grown up?

It's not that he's eighteen years old, it's not that he's not going to school anymore, it's that he's married.

This is still the consensus in many places.

Before Zhang Xuan, he didn't understand why.

But now he understands that a person with a small family thinks completely differently from a person without a small family. Every morning, when Zhang Xuan saw Luo Yujiao lying beside him, a wave of pride welled up in his heart.

How can I let her wander with the South Seas? Never.

Just for her, for the sake of the future children, I want to lay down a big world.

Therefore, although Zhang Xuan was married, he had no time for his honeymoon at all, so he returned to the camp the next day and stepped up his training. also took the time to meet Luo Rucai in person, and gave Luo Rucai a lot of suggestions, as for whether Luo Rucai adopted it, Zhang Xuan didn't know. Because Zhang Xuan threw himself into training.

Because he knows that this kind of comfortable life will not last long, not to mention anything else, all Li Zicheng's food reserves alone will not be enough for them to stay in this mountain for a long time, and sooner or later they will have to go out of the mountain to fight.

"Kill." 1,000 people, divided into two large squares, and between the two large squares, there is a passage. In detail, there are ten small squares in each large phalanx. Each soldier has a different weapon.

Eighty percent of the soldiers were armed with spears, and twenty percent were armed with swords and shields.

As for the firecrackers or anything, there are none. Although there are a lot of firearms in the rebel army, they will not be given to Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan's department is still the third-rate battalion leader in the rebel army, and there is not much armor. Even Luo Rucai had the intention of transferring Zhang Xuan to his side as a strategist and giving him advice. It's just that Zhang Xuan knows that dozens of times will be in turmoil in the future, so he naturally has to find a way to protect himself.

And the best way to protect yourself is to seize military power.

These thousand people, in the eyes of others, are nothing more than Er'er, but where Zhang Xuan's capital is, how could Zhang Xuan give up here to be an empty strategist?

Under the scorching sun, Zhang Xuan stood on a high platform built of logs, wearing iron armor, pressing a sword in his hand, and wearing a red cloak, looking down coldly.

It's the hottest time of the year. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down Zhang Xuan's head. But Zhang Xuan didn't seem to move, as if he hadn't noticed.

Zhang Xuan was like this, although the soldiers below wet their clothes into different shapes with sweat, none of them dared to move.

Zhang Xuan divided his army into two parts, one was led by Cao Zongyu, and the other was led by Deng He, and Zhang Xuan also had a hundred personal guards by his side, a small part of which were people who dared to fight selected by Zhang Xuan from the battalion, or talents with a plan, and the other half was the personal guard that Luo Yujiao went to Luo Rucai to ask for, just to protect Zhang Xuan's safety on the battlefield.

And the hundred guards beside Zhang Xuan are the Luo family, named Luo Dai. has the same surname as Luo Rucai, but the relationship is much more estranged, barely a family, and it has been more than ten years since Luo Rucai started the army, and he can be regarded as experienced.

Zhang Xuan said: "Brother Luo, what do you think of my battalion? ”

Luo Dai has a bear waist on his back and slender arms, even if he can't hang his arms down his knees, but this person with very long arms has a special name, which is called ape arms. This kind of food can be regarded as a heavenly reward for eating, and it is a person who is good at shooting.

At this moment, Luo Dai admired Zhang Xuan a little.

He saw with his own eyes how Zhang Xuan trained this thousand people from people who didn't understand anything, although this kind of army is not a little murderous, it is just a shelf, but in more than a month, Zhang Xuan trained some hungry people to look like this, and he can be regarded as a capable person. But he still can't get used to these people, in his opinion, the real elite is to play, and he can become an elite by playing twice on the school field, which is simply wishful thinking.

"It looks like a good posture, but whether you can fight or not, you have to see it on the battlefield." Luo Dai didn't deny it against his will, but he still didn't affirm it positively.

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly when he saw this, he was used to Luo Dai's hard mouth, and as soon as he saw Zhang Xuan's signal, someone immediately waved the flag. This is the flag language negotiated by Zhang Xuan and Cao Zongyu, and it is relatively simple, just a simple inheritance of the righteous army.

Seeing a red flag waving, Cao Zongyu's department immediately retreated, and Deng He's department stepped forward. Zhang Xuan waved another flag, Deng He's department retreated, and Cao Zongyu's department was above, such a situation looked like broadcast gymnastics, but it was the root of army scheduling.

From the perspective of army scheduling, Zhang Xuan felt that the people under his command had barely passed, or that he had created a herald system in the inheritance of the righteous army, which could be used. It's just that the situation on the battlefield is a hundred times more complicated than here, and Zhang Xuan has never experienced it, and for a while this is already the limit of what he can improve.

"Good. The next item, the military academies. Zhang Xuan said.

Immediately, a herald shouted Zhang Xuan's words: "All military academies." ”

The message conveyed by Zhang Xuan's flag is still very limited, and many things must be shouted. Zhang Xuan's personal guards also took on this duty.

After listening to the order, the two departments gathered on both sides, and lined up densely on both sides of the school field, as if they were two human walls, and then immediately there were people who guarded hundreds of households, and all kinds of different things were listed on the school field.

But I saw a wooden pole, and on top of the wooden pole, there were grass balls of different sizes. The largest one is like a smaller target. The smallest was the size of a fist, as if straw sandals had been braided, and they were very strong. This was used to train the marksmanship, and each soldier had to run a few paces away, and then use his spear to plunge into the ball of grass.

Zhang Xuan's original intention was not to make this grass ball so big, but he had to do so, the soldiers under his command were all farmers before, and they had never touched the spear in their hands, if there was no such thing as the largest grass ball, I don't know how many people would not even be able to withstand the grass ball. Moreover, the grass balls are suspended in the air, and they can be easily pushed out instead of piercing them, so only a larger one can make these soldiers stab.

Zhang Xuan can only do this.

In another place, a white line was drawn by hydrated lime, and on one side of the white line, signs of thirty steps, fifty steps, and seventy steps were drawn. This is where the short spear is projected.

Zhang Xuan was very annoyed by the long-range firepower in his army.

He didn't have firearms, so he made some bows and arrows, but there were bows and arrows, and there were no qualified archers. Zhang Xuan had no choice but to concentrate most of the archery people in his own guards, and under the auspices of Luo Dai, they trained alone.

And what about most of the soldiers?

After Zhang Xuan thought about it, he finally remembered the thing of throwing spears. Or javelins, each soldier had five javelins. It's standard.

At the beginning of the whole army's martial arts exercise, Zhang Xuan saw a tragic scene, countless soldiers went into battle with Shiwu, and rushed towards the grass ball together, almost in several difficulties, they could only stab the big grass ball that seemed to be an arrow target.

There were even a couple of stupid people who didn't get a thorn at all. Pushed the grass ball out.

Immediately, a guard pulled the stupid guy down and put it on the board solidly.

As far as Zhang Xuan is concerned, his personal guard is still a part-time military judge.

Then I watched them throw spears, fortunately, most of the soldiers had been raised for a month, and they also had a few strengths, and they threw them hard, most of them threw over the line of thirty paces, and even a few masters threw seventy paces away. Zhang Xuan immediately ordered these well-behaved soldiers to be promoted.

Anyway, the officers in Zhang Xuan's army are not fixed, they are all temporary, and if they don't perform well during training, they can be taken down at any time, and if they perform well during training, they can also be promoted at any time.

After seeing these two items, it's the performance of the sword and shield hand.

The requirements of the sword and shield hand are higher than that of the average pikeman, because the sword and shield hand is used to break the formation, most of them are selected warriors from the army, or they will do two or three times.

Zhang Xuan prepared a set of wooden armor for him, with something on his head that seemed to be a modern fencing mask, but it was made of rattan, and it didn't sound very strong, but anyway. This set of equipment, as well as a little bit of defense.